Underbelly Files: Infiltration
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Underbelly Files: Infiltration is an Australian made-for-television movie that aired on February 14, 2011 on the Nine Network
. It is the second of three television movies in the Underbelly Files series, the other two being Tell Them Lucifer was Here and The Man Who Got Away.
It tells the true story of Victorian
detective Colin McLaren
who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.
detective Colin McLaren
who posed as a shady art dealer for 18 months and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia. It resulted in the biggest win of his career, seeing 11 of Australia's most villainous Mafiosi sent to prison.
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
. It is the second of three television movies in the Underbelly Files series, the other two being Tell Them Lucifer was Here and The Man Who Got Away.
It tells the true story of Victorian
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
detective Colin McLaren
Colin McLaren
Colin McLaren is an Australian crime-writer and former undercover police operative. A feature length telemovie about his life by Underbelly Productions, starring Sullivan Stapleton in the title role, has just concluded filming for the Channel Nine Network and is due to air in 2011...
who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.
Synopsis
Infiltration tells the true story of VictorianVictoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
detective Colin McLaren
Colin McLaren
Colin McLaren is an Australian crime-writer and former undercover police operative. A feature length telemovie about his life by Underbelly Productions, starring Sullivan Stapleton in the title role, has just concluded filming for the Channel Nine Network and is due to air in 2011...
who posed as a shady art dealer for 18 months and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia. It resulted in the biggest win of his career, seeing 11 of Australia's most villainous Mafiosi sent to prison.
Cast
- Roy BillingRoy BillingRoy Billing is a New Zealand television actor, now based in Sydney, Australia.-Career:Billing has starred in many television shows and had main roles on Bad Cop, Bad Cop, Dossa and Joe and Hell Has Harbour Views...
as Aussie Bob - Buddy Dannoun as Rosario Torcaso
- Valentino del Toro as Antonio Russo
- Matthew Green as The Murder Victim
- Al Vila as Carlo Ricci
- Glenda LinscottGlenda LinscottGlenda Linscott is an Australian actress, best known for her performance as tough bikie inmate and top dog Rita "The Beater" Connors in the television drama Prisoner, for which she won a Penguin award....
as Sandra - Sullivan StapletonSullivan StapletonSullivan Stapleton is an Australian actor, who has appeared in many television series but is best known from his roles in Satisfaction and The Secret Life of Us.-Career:...
as Colin McLaren - Henry NixonHenry NixonHenry Nixon is an Australian actor.Henry Nixon was born in the 1970s at St Margaret's Hospital on Crown Street in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills...
as Leigh - Alfredo Malabello as Vito
- Jessica NapierJessica NapierJessica Napier is a New Zealand born actress. She has been working consistently in Australian film and television for the past 15 years...
as Jude Gleeson / Narrator - Donna Matthews as Bubbles
- Richard Piper as Roger
- Emma de Clario as Maria Russo
- Fantine Banulski as Louise Russo
- Luke Christopoulos as Little Tony Russo
- Ange Arabatzis as Nico
- Brian Gore as Melbourne Associate
- Serge Vercion as Calabrian Farmer
- Mirko Grillini as Rocci Russo
- Stephen Lopez as Dominic Torcaso
- Tottie GoldsmithTottie GoldsmithTottie Goldsmith is an Australian actress and singer.-Biography:Goldsmith is the daughter of Melbourne restaurateur and nightclub owner Brian Goldsmith and British-born actress Rona Newton-John. Her great grandfather was German physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born...
as Sara Herlihy - Josh Price as Tiny
- Arthur Angel as Vinnie Messina
- Kassandra Clementi as Chelsea McLaren
- Meisha Lowe as Kim
- Natalie Pantou as Elise Messina
- Melissa Howard as Chelsea's Friend
- Susan Davidson as Monica
- Rheanna Duff as Prostitute
- Madeleine Harding as Rachel
- Rai Fazio as Massimo Falzetta
- Steve Hayden as Geoffrey Bowen
- Alex Borg as Peter Wallis
- Kevin Stewart as Police Commissioner
- Doug Bowles as Ziggy
- Adam Williams as S.E.R.T.
- Mark Goodrem as Clerk
- John Higginson as Defense Barrister
- Darran ScottDarran ScottDarran Scott is an Australian film and television writer and producer. He began working as an actor as a young teenager and appeared in such Australian TV shows as Special Squad, Carson's Law, The Henderson Kids and the World War I mini-series Anzacs...
as Magistrate